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Being disturbed, enter into custody (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

retention

'custody' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'being disturbed enter into' is the wordplay.
'being disturbed' indicates an anagram.
'enter'+'into'='enterinto'
'enterinto' is an anagram of 'RETENTION'.

(Other definitions for retention that I've seen before include "holding" , "Capacity to remember" , "Saving" , "Failure to eliminate a substance from the body" , "Keeping hold (of something)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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